Film

The Florestine Collection

2011 · 31m · Documentary

IMDb

8.0

Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. The dresses and much of the film footage were later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas has completed the film, which includes Helen's original silhouette, cut-out, and puppet animation, as well as flood-damaged and restored home movies.

• Helen HillDirector
• Paul GailiunasDirector

Release date

April 1, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

31m

Genres

Documentary